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National Science Foundation

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The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent US federal agency that supports fundamental research and education in science and engineering across various fields, including astronomy and astrophysics. NSF provides grants for research projects, infrastructure, and facilities, such as telescopes and observatories, that enable discoveries about the universe. They also collaborate with NASA on space-related research activities and provide funding for projects utilizing the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory. NSF's activities advance knowledge, cultivate a STEM workforce, and expand scientific literacy.

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The National Science Foundation would receive an additional $7,550,000,000 for research awards, scholarships, and fellowships under the draft bill.

FinancialLegalValue 4.0Sep 6, 2021House budget reconciliation package funds NASA infrastructure but not lunar lander work

Cardinal Muscle is a study funded by the National Science Foundation in collaboration with the ISS U.S. National Laboratory to test whether microgravity can be used as a research tool for understanding and preventing sarcopenia.

GeneralLegalValue 2.3Aug 10, 2021Successful Launch Of Northrop Grumman’s Resupply and NASA Science Mission

Xona won a Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Science Foundation in 2020 for research related to its proposed low Earth orbit constellation.

FinancialPlanGeneralValue 4.2Aug 4, 2021Startups map out strategies to augment or backup GPS

Planet expanded its contract with the NASA Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program to provide access to PlanetScope imagery for scientific research use for all U.S. Federal Civilian researchers and National Science Foundation funded researchers, including their contractors and grantees.

RelationshipsValue 4.0Jul 23, 2021NASA expands access to Planet Data to all US Federal Civilian agencies

The National Science Foundation received a 20% increase in the president’s 2021-10-01 budget request.

FinancialValue 4.0Jul 12, 2021The House CJS Subcommittee FY22 NASA Budget Markup Comments From The Coalition For Deep Space Exploration

S. 1260 authorizes funding increases for DARPA and the National Science Foundation and establishes a new technology directorate at the National Science Foundation.

LegalFinancialValue 4.0Jun 9, 2021Senate passes NASA authorization act

The University of Illinois awarded Blue Canyon Technologies a contract on 2021-05-12 to build two six-unit cubesats for a space science mission funded by the National Science Foundation.

RelationshipsPlanFinancialValue 4.7Jun 8, 2021Blue Canyon Technologies names new CEO

LeoLabs gathers data in Alaska with the Poker Flats radar operated by SRI International on behalf of the National Science Foundation.

RelationshipsValue 3.2Apr 22, 2021LeoLabs declares Costa Rica Space Radar operational

The National Science Foundation would receive $10,200,000,000 in the proposed budget, a 20% increase from 2021, including continued funding for work on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile.

FinancialCapabilityValue 4.3Apr 9, 2021Biden administration proposes $24.7 billion budget for NASA in 2022

The National Science Foundation estimates cleanup costs for the Arecibo site to be between $30,000,000 and $50,000,000 spread over fiscal years 2021 and 2022.

FinancialLegalGeneralValue 4.6Mar 8, 2021NSF report estimates Arecibo cleanup cost at up to $50 million

The fiscal year 2021 appropriations bill enacted in December required the National Science Foundation to report within 60 days about the cause of the collapse of the 305-meter Arecibo radio telescope and future plans for the site.

LegalPlanValue 3.5Mar 8, 2021NSF report estimates Arecibo cleanup cost at up to $50 million

Stoke Space Technologies received a $225,000 Small Business Innovation Research award from the National Science Foundation in 2020 for an integrated propulsion solution to enable reusable upper stages.

CapabilityFinancialValue 4.5Feb 25, 2021Stoke raises seed round to work on fully reusable rockets

The report accompanying the fiscal year 2021 spending bill directed the National Science Foundation to prepare a study on Arecibo’s collapse and cleanup efforts and on the process for determining whether to establish comparable technology at the site along with associated cost estimates.

LegalPlanFinancialValue 3.5Jan 1, 2021Puerto Rico government supports rebuilding Arecibo

The National Science Foundation announced on 2020-11-19 that it will decommission the Arecibo radio telescope after engineering analyses showed the telescope was at risk of collapse.

PlanLegalGeneralValue 4.0Dec 1, 2020NASA weighing options for future planetary radar capabilities after Arecibo

The National Science Foundation announced on 2020-11-19 that it will perform a controlled decommissioning of the giant radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

PlanGovernanceValue 4.0Nov 19, 2020NSF to decommission Arecibo radio telescope

Orbit Fab received a $250,000 National Science Foundation grant to develop a cooperative satellite docking system.

FinancialCapabilityGrowthValue 4.6Nov 17, 2020Orbit Fab to launch first fuel tanker in 2021 with Spaceflight

TCarta developed new machine learning-based bathymetric mapping technologies including two software packages and commercial application of NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite with funding from the National Science Foundation.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.0Oct 27, 2020TCarta develops AI-based commercial bathymetric mapping technologies

USGIF developed the GEOINT learning modules as part of a National Science Foundation-funded GeoTech Center award and adapted those modules for high school teaching.

LegalFinancialGeneralValue 3.2Oct 20, 2020USGIF initiates certification program in Geospatial for high school students

The National Science Foundation selected a group led by the University of Central Florida, with Universidad Ana G. Méndez and Yang Enterprises Inc., to run the Arecibo telescope in 2018.

RelationshipsPlanValue 4.6Aug 12, 2020Arecibo radio observatory damaged

Carbice has won more than $3,000,000 in Small Business Innovation Research grants from the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Army, and the National Science Foundation.

FinancialRelationshipsValue 4.0Jun 22, 2020Thermal materials startup Carbice finds foothold in space industry
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